Why Do So Many Vietnamese Have The Same Surname ‘Nguyễn’? | Street Interview

Is this the Hue accent? I am learning some Vietnamese at the moment to communicate with my wife's grandparents.

Please make more Videos about Vietnam.

Tran dynasty changed everyone to Nguyen when they took over Ly dynasty.

this is olaf meme

My name hoa nguyen, my next door neighbor name hoa nguyen, she got my mails , I got her mails, that happened a lot.

Nguyen subname is dominant in the Central and Southern regions. In the North, Nguyen subname is probably not too dominant. Simply put, in Hanoi, besides Nguyen, there are also other subnames that are relatively large in number such as Pham, Do, Vu, Dang, Le, Tran, Bui, Dao, Hoang, Ngo, Trinh...

There is another reason why 40% of Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyen. At the end of the 19th century, the French invaded Vietnam. They had a large-scale population census. But at that time, almost all Vietnamese people in the lower class didn't have a surname. So the French just think: isn't the Nguyen dynasty the last? They have a solution that people who don't have a surname will have Nguyen as their surname.

Nguyen was the last dynasty in Vietnam, that’s why.

Did you know at one point in Vietnam, the most popular last names were from the Han and Tang dynasty?

In Vietnam, there are hundreds of surnames, very many

not having the Nguyen surname in Vietnam make you feel special :))

The goal is to survive extinction

Vetnamese is a beautiful lamguage 😻 Everyone sound like they are singing!!

These northern Vietnamese dialects are so hard to understand. (Im southern vietnamese )
If you ever take a language course for Vietnamese, chances are it is based off of the Northern dialect and your Vietnamese friends will find it difficult to tell what you are sayingnor just tell you you are pronouncing it 😑 wrong.

Additionally, in Vietnam, 100 years ago, a mother used to be called by her first child’s name. For example, if her first child is Đức then her name will eventually changes into “Mẹ Đức”. Nowadays, the elders in the central part of Vietnam still use this system quite often.
Come to Sài Gòn and you’ll have a broader perspective of how “Nguyễn” is the most common surname in Vietnam. The information provided by these people in the video somehow wasn’t truly correct but their own thoughts.

Me in USA: What Your Name
Other People: Nguyen
Me: YOU ARE VIETNAM

I thought Ng surname was a semplified nguyen😢

i always wondered this as a viet

I’m nyugen too. But we changed it when living in Cambodia to get into school. Now it’s just a made up last name.

It seems young Vietnamese do not know much about the fact and I, as an elderly Vietnamese, would like to help them: Longer In the past, the surname Nguyễn was of minority. The first event was when the Trần’s political power took over the throne of Lý Dynasty and forced Ly’s descendants to change their surname to Nguyễn . So, future generations wouldn’t know their real surname and couldn’t revenge. Later, when Trần Dynadty collapsed, a group of them also changed their surname to Nguyen. Similar things repeated with Ho Dynasty and Mạc Dynasty. When Lords Nguyen created their own kingdom in the South, lots of people from North followed them and a number of these people changed their surname to Nguyen to get protection from the Lords and, later, the Kings. Further more, when the French colonist government carried out the first census and issued papers of identification to people in Vietnam, they also gave the surname Nguyen to people who didn’t know for sure about their surnames. In Vietnam people are addressed by their first name, not last name. So far, we don’t have any inconvenience in relation to this issue. Most of us are happy with this surname, feeling closer and related among us.😊

Le is still longest ruling last name dynasty in Vietnam as 400 years while Nguyen is just 200 years.

What a strange language it's the first time I hear vietnamese it sound like an extraterrestrial language 👽

when he said Nguyen like that for me it feels weird bc I always say it like win but with a bit of n it the front but someone at my school said it like nu-gin-ya lol

We need more content on Vietnam, everytime I type vietnam I have wars videos😢

it becuase of french colonialism!!!!!!!

Your Mother is Nguyen
Your Father is Nguyen
Your uncle is Nguyen
Your Boyfriend is Nguyen
Your Ex boyfriend is Nguyen!

Nguyen Tsukoyomi! 🙌

That's why there some players named "Nguyen Slayer" or "Nguyen Destroyer" in SEA Esports

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I like to imagine that a long, long, time ago, a guy named Nguyen went around the country and had lots of kids. Also that their kids went on to have a lot of children too.

It is a shame that you did not learn how to pronounce it before you started recording your video.

Oh god I hate that last name “Nguyen” it’s soo annoying that why I changed it…

There were a number of interesting fact (or used to be fact) in Vietnamese name. For example, most people with middle name "văn/van" are male, and those with "thị/thi" are female. This is due to the fact that in old Vietnamese (nôm language), Van literally means boy/male and Thi means girl/female. Things started to change around the 2000s tho as urbanisation improve education. More people now know how to read and write, and the written system with the slightly-adjusted romanized alphabet has been settled enable people to get more creative with their names/their children names.
Another fact related to this is back then, there was a belief that if you name your child with a beautiful name, that would attract demon and poltergeist to come and kidnap that child, so no parent, especially in rural areas, would dare to name their children something too beautiful or meaningful. Illiteracy also played a part as well. I know most family in the south back then name their children with number, especially farmers family. The first child would simply be called "Nhất" (number one) and the second child would be called "Hai" (number two) and so on.
Again, the trend for naming babies now is almost the same as the rest of the world: a unique, meaningful and overall beautiful name. And we got to this point all thanks to urbanisation and development in education

Chinese Empire is afraid all Vietnamese king who name nguyen

In the US certain part of the country some people have 2 first names like Vietnamese people from New Orleans always have 2 first names - Thao-Mi, Hoai-Nhi, Thuyet-Nhi, Thao-Vy etc so their full names are pretty Long for example: Thao-Mi Hong Tran where as people from California its just a First and a Last name like Tuan Vu , Khang Vu , Phong Vo , Minh Nguyen , Nhi Le etc. Also Vietnamese people living in the USA with English names make their names even longer Example : " Stephanie Thao-Mi Nhi Nguyen " or Johnathan Tuan Quoc Vu but then you also have people with names like John Vu , Stephanie Nguyen , Lilian Tran even though their Vietnamese names arnt Documented as a legal name at home their Parents will call them by a Vietnamese name that they have

Actually yep vietnamese’s ppl had a surname “Nguyen” in the first just like in Arabia they’re also have “Mohamed” A something like that :))) but is hard to pronounce “Nguyen” for real lol

would like to see more interviews from Vietnam!!

Vietnam was 'invaded' by China？😅 thought Vietnam wanted to be part of China

40%? More like 99.9% .Haven't encountered any non Nguyen yet

my family is from southern vietnam so i grew up learning how to speak viet with a southern dialect so it hard to understand these people northern dialect

“Dung” is a bad first name? Try “Phuc” or “Phuoc” and see where you land with English speakers 😅

My grandfa's surname was Wong but mine is Nguyen

The origin of surname Nguyen 阮 (ruan3) from China.
Today surname Nguyen Ruan 阮 in China is very rare

If I had a nickel every time I was asked if I was related to so-and-so, I’d be wealthier than Jeff Bezos.

Vietnamese sounds like a mix of Chinese and Thai.

My surname is Lê, my former surname is Nguyễn.

The Nguyen is translated in 阮ruan in chinese. and Tran is 陈 chen.

My Duolingo friend surname is Nguyen 😂😂😂